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An investigation of the effects of IT investment on firm performance: The role of complementarity.
(2006)
The concept of complementarity has been introduced into IT-based firm performance research in order to address inconsistent magnitudes of the impacts from IT investments across studies. This dissertation seeks to understand ...
The expressed faculty preference for collective bargaining related to selected measures of job satisfaction, perceptions of collective bargaining, and attitudes toward unions and union officials.
(1982)
This study analytically assessed variables related to faculties' expressed preferences for collective bargaining. The variables identified for the purpose of this study were socio-economic, job satisfaction, perception of ...
A Three Essay Dissertation on Social Movements and Social Media
(2014-05)
Users of social media are now empowered to self-organize in new ways. In particular, participants of social movements have used social media to spread their message, organize their activities, and recruit others. For ...
Government, business groups, and corporate entrepreneurial intensity during institutional transition.
(2002)
With archival and perceptual survey data from 992 member firms of the largest 250 business groups in the transition economy of China, it is found that formal institutions in various forms of government influence exert ...
Essays in Corporate Governance and Executive Compensation
(2015-05)
This dissertation is a collection of three essays that investigate the issues related to corporate governance and executive compensation. In Chapter 1 I employ a sample of U.S. public firms to investigate the effect of ...
Trust in virtual teams: The role of task, technology and time.
(2004)
Virtual teams face major impediments to developing trust given their relative inability to evaluate other members' abilities, motivations and work patterns. However, trust is the foundation on which virtual teams can build ...
ENTREPRENEURIAL RESOURCE ACQUISITION AT THE INTERSECTION OF SOCIAL INVESTING AND CROWDFUNDING
(2016)
Crowdfunding – an open call on an internet platform for money – is becoming an important source of financial capital for entrepreneurs. Compared to traditional sources of financial capital, the phenomenon of crowdfunding ...
Accountability as it influences ethical behavior.
(2001)
The Ethical Decision-Making Model with Accountability proposes that various forms of accountability will influence ethical intentions, with moral intensity moderating this relationship. The model also shows that cognitive ...
To what extent is slack conditioned on munificence? Extending the behavioral theory of the firm.
(2004)
This dissertation studies the accumulation and "spending" of organizational slack dependent on environmental munificence. Over five decades have passed since the "behavioral theory of the firm" formally introduced the idea ...
Reasoned and institutional explanations for the use of software development project management practices.
(2007)
Abstract not available.